2014.09.24 – SUPERMAN DOOMED #2 and STORM #3 in stores today

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Pretty thrilled to have two big books in comic book shops today:

SUPERMAN DOOMED #2 is the enormous conclusion to the six month long DOOMED storyline that’s run through the Superman books. Charles Soule and I co-wrote, with tremendous art from a slew of great artists, including Ken Lashley, Cory Smith, and many, many more.

Superman’s given in to the Doomsday virus, going full-monster in order to take on Brainiac, with the lives of everyone on Earth at stake. And yes, the last two pages might break your brain.

Check out Comicosity’s 8/10 review:

Soule and Pak seamlessly scribe a narrative that is both big on action and thought-provoking about the nature of solving the problem of world-dominating alien invaders. In one particular scene, Lois asks Superman how he can reward Brainiac by allowing him to live. The response is brilliant, and so right for Superman. So right.

— Matt Santori-Griffith, Comicosity

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STORM #3 follows Ororo Munroe back to the village in Kenya where she pretended to be a goddess as a child. Now she faces new challenges as an adult — with her former flame Forge on hand to complicate matters.

Have I mentioned that I love Greg Pak? Because I love Greg Pak. And I really love “Storm”. In just two issues, Pak and Victor Ibanez have dove feet first into exploring the long history of this wonderful character full of personal contradictions (an orphan and a pick-pocket and a weather witch and a goddess and a punk and a leader and a mother) and bringing all of these aspects together to create a portrait of one of the most interesting characters in Marvel’s history. Why aren’t you reading this book?

— Alice, Multiversity Comics

Hope ya dig!

Rave reviews for MAKE COMICS LIKE THE PROS!

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MAKE COMICS LIKE THE PROS, the how-to book Fred Van Lente and I wrote with art by Colleen Coover, hit stores last week. And I’m just gonna say it, y’all — I’m super proud of the book and hope you buy it. We did our darnedest to write an incredibly practical, straight-forward, no-malarkey book about the actual experience of making comics that would be helpful for everyone from total beginners to fellow pros honing their craft. We learned a heck of a lot ourselves while writing the book, interviewing hugely smart people like Kelly Sue DeConnick, Klaus Janson, Gabriel Hardman, and Brian Clevinger. Here’s hoping it’ll be fun and helpful for you, too!

For more about the book, check out the podcast we did with the Comics Experience guys.

And here are a few review excerpts:

“‘Make Comics Like the Pros,’ of all the How To books I’ve reviewed in recent memory, is the best. If you can read only one, make it this one.” — Augie DeBlieck, Jr., Comic Book Resources

“If you are interested in writing comics or just would like to gain a better insight into the creative process that goes into making your favorite titles, then you should definitely check this book out. Highly recommended. A+” — Josh Begley, Fandom Post

“…truly invaluable for anyone interested in breaking into the comics industry.” — Henry Chamberlain, Comics Grinder

“‘Make Comics Like the Pros’ is the book that seems like the one most up and coming creators actually need. It’s an incredibly fair and impartial read with useful insight from pros done in a way that explains all the basics and leaves the rest up to you.” — Matthew Meylikhov, Multiversity Comics

Ask your local comics shop to hold you a copy!

Or you can buy the book at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or digitally via iBooks.

2014.09.17 – BATMAN/SUPERMAN FUTURE’S END in stores!

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BATMAN/SUPERMAN FUTURE’S END #1, written by yours truly with art by Cliff Richards, Jack Herbert, and Vicente Cifuentes, hit stores yesterday with a dark tale set in the near future, showing an injured Batman searching for a missing Superman in a post-war world.

Check out the lettered preview here at CBR.

Ask your local retailer to hold a copy for you.

Buy it digitally at Comixology.

Check out the 8.5 review from Unleash the Fanboy, which calls the book “a deep look into the breakdown in partnership between the Word’s Finest, with Greg Pak delivering a powerful script that comes highly recommended.”

2014.08.29 – 08.31 – Greg Pak’s schedule for the Fan Expo Canada in Toronto!

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Yes, the rumors are true! I’ll be at the Fan Expo Canada in Toronto this weekend, and here’s my schedule:

Friday: 4:00 Autograph Signing (Area AA)
Saturday: 11:30 DC Champions of Justice Panel Room 714
Saturday: 1:00 Marvel All Access Panel Room 714
Saturday: 2:30 DC Batman 75 Room 714
Saturday: 5:00 Autograph Signing (Area AA)
Sunday: 1:00 Autograph Signing (Area CC)
Sunday: 2:00 How to Pitch a Story Workshop Room 717

Hope to see you there!

Click here for more about the convention.

2014.07.09 – TUROK: DINOSAUR HUNTER #6 in stores today!

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“Pak has introduced a set of characters in this Gold Key revamp that are absolutely mesmerizing…. Aiding and abetting this is, of course, the excellent art of Takeshi Miyazawa. Can this artist draw dinos or not? And those closeup facial expressions that have become such a signature part of this series already are handled deftly while the storytelling never suffers.” — Cosmic Book News

TUROK #6, written by yours truly with gorgeous art by Takeshi Miyazawa, hits stores today! It’s the second installment of the story of Turok’s adventure with Altani, pteranodon-riding daughter of Genghis Khan. On the fence? You can read TUROK #5, the entire first issue of the storyline, FOR FREE right here!

Read the preview for TUROK #6

Ask your local shop to hold a copy for you

Buy TUROK #6 at Comixology

TUROK and CODE MONKEY SAVE WORLD on sale now at Comixology!

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Happy Independence Day! Which also happens to be a great day to buy some indie comics written by yours truly!

Today you can buy the first four issues of my TUROK: DINOSAUR HUNTER book, drawn by the great Mirko Colak, for just 99 cents a pop at Comixology! Check it out here.

You can also get all four issues of CODE MONKEY SAVE WORLD, brilliantly illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa, as part of the $24.99 Monkeybrain Independent’s Day Bundle at Comixology, which also includes indie hits like BANDETTE, KINSKI, and D4VE. Check it out!

If all you want is CODE MONKEY SAVE WORLD (or any of the other individual Monkeybrain books), you can get them for 1/2 off by entering the code “INDIE” at checkout. Details here!

I’m pretty darn proud of both TUROK and CODE MONKEY SAVE WORLD. Get TUROK if you want to see a Native American in 1210 AD deal with the arrival of Crusaders who use dinosaurs as weapons of war. And read CMSW if you want to see a monkey and a supervillain team up in a story based on the songs of internet superstar musician Jonathan Coulton.

Big, fun stuff to write — I hope ya enjoy reading it!

Rave review for MAKE COMICS LIKE THE PROS!

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The fine folks at What’cha Reading? have posted a rave review of MAKE COMICS LIKE THE PROS, a how-to book written by Fred Van Lente and yours truly, with illustrations by the great Colleen Coover.

The key quote: “I cannot stress how vital it is for the burgeoning artist and writer to add this manual to their library.”

MAKE COMICS LIKE THE PROS hits stores in September.

Preorder it here from B&N or here from Amazon.